COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 01.10.26

Six vacant seats were on Thursday, with two defences apiece for the Tories and Reform, one for Labour and a free-for-all.  For the second week in a row, three of the vacancies arose through the death of the incumbent.

It was a fairly mediocre week for Labour, with vote share down in three of the five seats the party contested.  Despite this, they emerged with three seats - including two gains from Reform in Northumberland.  One of the latter had been vacated by a hapless short-lived Reform councillor, giving Labour an easy ride to victory.  However, Labour were clearly helped across all three seats by the presence of Restore Britain candidates.  In the other Northumberland seat, Reform missed out by 60 votes, with Restore garnering 76 votes in last place.  In Blackpool, Reform missed out on a gain from Labour by just 39 votes, with Restore in third place with 79 votes.

Restore Britain are also eating into Reform's overall polling figures, extending Labour's lead in the polls.  Whereas Reform were leading every single poll with Starmer at the helm, they have only led one poll in the last three weeks, and that was by a solitary point.  In one recent poll, Reform trailed Labour by six points.  In that very same poll, Restore garnered six points.

It is now more than two weeks since Reform last held or won a council seat.  These are troubling times for Nigel Farage's party and there are worrying signs that the next general election could turn out to be just another Lab-Con Uniparty battle after all.  That likelihood is made all the more likely by the entrance of Rupert Lowe's party.

Claremont, Blackpool Council

Lab: 458 (41.8%) -10.5%

Ref: 419 (38.2%) New

Res: 79 (7.2%) New

Con: 62 (5.7%) -15.9%

Grn: 44 (4.0%) New

LDm: 18 (1.6%) -10.4%

Ind: 16 (1.5%) New

Lab HOLD

Triggered by the death of the 86-year-old incumbent.  He was the UK's longest serving councillor at the time of his death, having served the same council ward for a continuous period of 53 years.  He was also Labour's first Blackpool council leader, from 1991-2000, and the party has maintained control ever since.  A fat lot of good Labour have done for this incredibly deprived ward just north of the town centre.  Despite rampant social problems, voters backed Labour again in 2023, with their candidates securing more than twice the vote of the Conservatives.  On Thursday, they clung onto this seat by just 39 votes, thanks to a split vote on the right.

Karl - Lab HOLD ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Wick & East Caithness, Highland Council

(first preference votes)

LDm: 1,522 (50.4%) +20.6%

Ind: 714 (23.6%) New

SNP: 424 (14.0%) -11.3%

Ref: 283 (9.4%) New

Con: 79 (2.6%) -12.5%

LDm GAIN from Ind (elected at stage 1)

The most northern council ward on mainland Britain, which includes the famed village of John o'Groats.  The vacancy was triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, who was the first councillor to stand down in response to a very unsavoury scandal.  He was one of six members on the council's licencing committee that voted to allow a convicted rapist - currently serving more than six years for raping a teenager in the back of his cab - to keep his taxi licence.  Three others have also since resigned.  All three seats were up for grabs here in 2022 and they were split between the Lib Dems, SNP and the disgraced incumbent.  Labour dropped out altogether from Thursday's contest, while the Lib Dems stormed to victory with no need for secondary votes.  They finished more than a thousand votes ahead of the SNP.

Karl - LDm GAIN ✔

Rich - LDm GAIN ✔

Long Whatton & Diseworth, North West Leicestershire District Council

Con: 576 (55.5%) -4.6%

Ref: 204 (19.7%) New

Lab: 147 (14.2%) -18.4%

Res: 55 (5.3%) New

Grn: 34 (3.3%) New

LDm: 22 (2.1%) -5.2%

Con HOLD

Triggered by the death of the 70-year-old incumbent, following a cancer battle.  He had served an unbroken period of 27 years on the council, having initially been elected in the 1980s and regaining his seat in 1999.  It was a three-horse race for this seat in 2023 and the incumbent improved his lead over Labour at a time in which the Tories were not particularly popular at large in the country.  On Thursday, the Tory candidate managed to fend off Reform with relative ease, as Labour slipped to third with a significant swing to Reform.

Karl - Con HOLD ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Amble, Northumberland County Council

Lab: 439 (38.8%) +0.4%

Ref: 379 (33.5%) -10.9%

Con: 237 (21.0%) +3.8%

Res: 76 (6.7%) New

Lab GAIN from Ref

Triggered by the sudden death of the 71-year-old incumbent, who had been elected to this semi-rural ward last year.  Northumberland is very much a battleground between Reform and the Conservatives, with Reform emerging from last year's election just three seats behind the Tories.  These stunning gains for Reform tipped the council into no overall control, but they have since slipped further behind the Tories as a result of expulsions, resignations, a by-election defeat and now death.  As predicted, Labour snuck to victory by the slender margin of 60 votes, helped by the presence of Rupert Lowe's project.

Karl - Lab GAIN ✔

Rich - Lab GAIN ✔

Hirst, Northumberland County Council

Lab: 350 (50.1%) +7.0%

Ref: 210 (30.0%) -20.0%

Res: 72 (10.3%) New

Con: 29 (4.1%) -2.8%

LDm: 27 (3.9%) New

Ind: 11 (1.6%) New

Lab GAIN from Ref

If the above Northumberland ward posed a tricky defence for Reform, this one was a mountain to climb.  The trigger for this contest was the disqualification of the incumbent, who had failed to show up at a single council meeting in six months.  He had been elected last year and like the above vacancy, it was a tight victory over Labour.  However, he soon found himself without a party as he was expelled from Reform as a result of online remarks, which included an expressed desire to 'shoot Starmer' given the opportunity.  It was a comfortable gain for Labour on Thursday, with a 140 vote margin over Reform.

Karl - Lab GAIN ✔

Rich - Lab GAIN ✔

Forth & Endrick, Stirling Council

(first preference votes)

Con: 1,188 (34.2%) -1.8%

SNP: 1,057 (30.5%) -4.8%

Lab: 380 (11.0%) -3.1%

Grn: 317 (9.1%) New

Ref: 298 (8.6%) New

LDm: 175 (5.0%) -0.7%

Ind: 55 (1.6%) New

Con HOLD (elected at stage 7)

Triggered by the death of the 76-year-old incumbent, who had been suffering from prostate cancer for the past two years.  He won the second of three seats here in 2022, with the SNP topping the poll on first preferences.  This is a vast sprawling council ward to the north of Glasgow that takes in much of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, including the banks of the famed loch itself.  The Scottish Family Party, who finished last in 2022, did not stand on Thursday.  It took seven stages for the Conservatives to hold the seat, but pushing the SNP into second place on first preferences is the key takeaway.

Karl - SNP GAIN ✘

Rich - Con HOLD ✔

A good week for our tipsters, with Karl pulling another point back in the head to head.  Both Karl and Richey are comfortably maintaining a 50 per cent plus accuracy rate.

MEME MONDAY #102

Slim pickings again last week, but a couple of memes broke the 1,000 share mark, so it wasn't a bad return.  We are already picking up going forward with as many new memes posted today than the whole of last week.  Karl is getting back in the game as his regular visits to the GP begin to lessen.

Tue 22 Sep - 92 shares

Thu 24 Sep - 1,261 shares

Fri 25 Sep -1,091 shares

Sun 27 Sep - 95 shares

Three Facebook Stories were published last week, all part of our Diversity Is Strength series...

BOATWATCH #78

It was a momentous week in the Channel and certainly not a week during which Labour MPs wanted to talk about 'crossings being down'.  A five day lull came to an end on Monday with three boats, one of which landed in Folkestone and was the first to reach British shores undetected (that we know about) since September last year.  Outrageously, this was followed only a day later by another undetected boat that landed in Dover.  What are the chances that two such boats would arrive undetected for the first time in more than a year 24 hours apart and none since?  Pretty slim just doesn't cut it.

Those two boats (and the four met by collaborator vessels) were followed a day later by a colossal ten boats carrying 781 migrants - a new daily record for 2026 and the highest daily figure since December 2025.  It was during this uptick in arrivals that an anti-colonist activist made his own interception in the Channel, albeit after the migrants had been unloaded onto the collaborator vessel.  Daniel Thomas livestreamed himself attempting to disable the dinghy as a French lifeguard tried to retrieve the boat, presumably in order for it to be redeployed later.  Predictably, Thomas was later arrested and charged with 'criminal damage' by the British authorities.

The aiding and abetting of the small boats invasion by both the British and French authorities is plain for all who care to see it.

The data set below does not account for the migrants who fled the scene after the two unintercepted small boats made landfall on Monday and Tuesday.  Only five colonists were detained on Monday and 21 on Tuesday.  A video shared online shows at least 20 young men clambering up the beach near Folkestone, most of whom are now at large

Total = 1,129 (increase of 935 from previous week)

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 24.09.26

There were six council seat vacancies filled this week and for the second week in a row we had an unorthodox polling day for one of them.  Tunbridge Wells Borough Council held its by-election on Wednesday.  All in all, we had two defences apiece for Labour and the Tories, one for the Greens and a free-for-all in Tunbridge Wells.

Kemi Badenoch will probably be the happiest party leader on the back of these results.  Two holds and a gain from the hapless Greens - all with increased vote shares - marking the best Tory returns for some time.  The Greens will be happy to have gained a Labour seat in Brighton, but this somewhat masks an otherwise torrid round of performances.  Brighton asides, their vote share was down in every seat the party contested, including a wooden spoon and a failed defence in the Cotswolds in which they slumped to fourth with a derisory 54 votes.

The likelihood of the Greens as a potential challenger to Labour on the left appear to have faded in the rear view mirror as Burnham continues to breathe a very faint spark of life into the party his predecessor nearly killed off.  He's not doing so great judging by this set of results, with two wooden spoons and defeat to the Greens in Brighton.  Labour managed an impressive hold in Milton Keynes, but like their defeat in Brighton, this was a result with local issues at heart.

Queen's Park, Brighton and Hove City Council

Grn: 1,139 (50.1%) +26.2%

Lab: 802 (35.3%) -15.7%

Ref: 160 (7.0%) New

Con: 97 (4.3%) -3.2%

LDm: 74 (3.3%) -1.3%

Grn GAIN from Lab

Triggered by the resignation of the Labour incumbent, who was elected in a 2024 by-election.  She stood down as the result of a dispute in which she sought assurances that the Labour controlled council would comply with a recent ruling that clarified the Supreme Court's confirmation of biological sex-based rights.  She failed to obtain those assurances and resigned her seat, although it is not clear if she left the party also.  Yes, this is Brighton and Hove, a notoriously woke city in which the Alphabet People have a strong presence.  Control of the council has changed hands between Labour and the Greens several times since 2011.  The Greens won a by-election in this ward last year and did so again on Thursday, bucking their national downward trend.  They remain some considerable distance behind Labour in terms of seats on the council.  There was no independent candidate this time.

Karl - Lab HOLD ✘

Rich - Lab HOLD ✘

Blockley, Cotswold District Council

Con: 431 (54.7%) +11.0%

LDm: 230 (29.2%) New

Ref: 59 (7.5%) New

Grn: 54 (6.9%) -49.5%

Lab: 14 (1.8%) New

Con GAIN from Grn

Triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, who cited additional work commitments outside of her council duties as the reason for stepping down.  She had served this rural ward since the most recent elections here in 2023, winning the seat in a head to head contest against the Conservatives, emerging victorious 518-402.  The ballot paper was greatly expanded on Thursday, but the Greens could not blame their disastrous performance on the addition of three candidates.  All the votes for the newcomers combined came nowhere near the 518 votes secured by the Greens in 2023, while the victorious Tories increased their vote share.  Bad news for Zack's crazy gang.

Karl - Con GAIN ✔

Rich - LDm GAIN ✘

New Bradwell, Milton Keynes City Council

Lab: 1,023 (54.2%) +19.7%

Ref: 441 (23.4%) -3.1%

Grn: 175 (9.3%) -12.5%

Con: 160 (8.5%) -2.6%

LDm: 87 (4.6%) -1.5%

Lab HOLD

Triggered by the untimely death of the 28-year-old incumbent, who had been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain tumour.  She won the second of two seats here in May, with Reform close behind.  The latter were looking to gain their tenth councillor in Milton Keynes, but it wasn't to be as Labour delivered an impressive defence.  This was the first time Labour had increased their vote share by more than 19 points in a council by-election since August 2025.  Was it largely down to a sympathy vote?  They played heavily on the tragic death of their councillor in campaign leaflets, while there was also a swing from the rapidly declining Greens.

Karl - Lab HOLD ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Womborne North, South Staffordshire District Council

Con: 864 (50.1%) +8.1%

Ref: 645 (37.4%) New

Lab: 115 (6.7%) -12.3%

Grn: 68 (3.9%) -16.1%

LDm: 33 (1.9%) -7.3%

Con HOLD

Triggered by the death of the incumbent, who was thought to be in his late 70s or early 80s.  His health had reportedly been in decline.  There have not been any council wide elections to this authority since 2023, which has been under Conservative control since 1976.  The Tories have now won all three of the by-elections fought here since 2023, with Reform still unable to get a foot in the council house.  As we saw last week, there appeared to be an unusual swing from left-wing parties, predominantly to Reform, but also to the victorious Conservatives.  There was no Heritage Party candidate this time, but they only picked up 208 votes in 2023.

Karl - Con HOLD ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✘

Bray, Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council

Con: 745 (36.1%) +1.3%

LDm: 719 (34.9%) +20.1%

Ref: 368 (17.8%) New

Ind: 193 (9.4%) -32.9%

Lab: 38 (1.8%) -6.3%

Con HOLD

Triggered by the death of the 94-year-old incumbent (yes, you read that correctly, 94).  He had served no less than 52 unbroken years on the council, although he was clinging on by the time of the last election here.  In 2023, he managed to secure the second of the ward's two seats by the narrow margin of 20 votes.  Local group Borough First took first place on that occasion and they stood again on Thursday, but sank to a distant fourth.  They are marked as Independents, as per our policy towards all local groups.  The Conservatives managed to hold off a huge Lib Dem surge by just 26 votes.

Karl - Ind GAIN ✘

Rich - LDm GAIN ✘

Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

LDm: 697 (37.4%) +22.9%

Con: 590 (31.6) -14.6%

Ref: 392 (21.0%) -4.4%

Grn: 186 (10.0%) -4.0%

LDm GAIN from Ind

Wednesday's by-election was triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, who had represented this largely rural ward - in both its current boundaries and previous boundaries - since 2019.  A member of local independent group the Tunbridge Wells Alliance, her colleagues did not contest this by-election, so we had a free-for-all that turned into a stunning Lib Dem gain.  The Lib Dems finished third here in May, with less than a third of the votes garnered by the first place Tories.

Karl - Con GAIN ✘

Rich - Con GAIN ✘

A complete strike out for Richey this week as Karl claws back three points.

MEME MONDAY #101

Another very quiet week indeed, apologies once again for the ongoing disruption to our work.  There is a very real chance this lull will continue into the winter.

Mon 14 Sep - 763 shares

Wed 16 Sep - 42 shares.  There wasn't much sympathy in the comments,
with many of the opinion that these NIMBYs have simply got what's
coming to them

Thu 17 Sep - 38 shares

Fri 18 Sep - 46 shares

Just the three Facebook Stories last week...

BOATWATCH #77

A seven day lull ended on Monday, with the collection of two boats carrying an average of 72 colonists apiece.  Just one more followed before another lull commenced.  Arrivals this year are now tracking well below the 30,000 mark, but still set to surpass 20,000.  This would present for the lowest annual figure since 2020.

Total = 194 (down 574 from previous week)

HOLBORN RUNNERS & RIDERS

Sagal Abdi-Wali is looking to replace Keir Starmer as MP for Holborn and St Pancras

Nominations for the forthcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election have closed.  There will 15 candidates vying to replace Keir Starmer on October 8, including two leftist party leaders.  Zack Polanski is looking for a path into the Commons, but his hopes have not been helped by the presence of George Galloway, who leads the Workers Party of Britain.  Galloway's decision has not gone down too well on the left, with another ex-Labour MP - Chris Williamson - resigning from the party in protest at what he perceives as a vote splitting exercise.  Williamson knows that Polanski will be the main challenger to Labour.  This is the heart of woke London, after all.

Ladbrokes currently have Labour as odds on favourites at 1/6, with the Greens on 4/1.

Despite recent rumours about an attempt to get David Miliband back into government, he reportedly declined the opportunity to stand in Holborn, effectively putting those rumours to bed for the foreseeable future.  He clearly feels he is better put to use continuing in his longstanding role in charge of the globalist people smuggler outfit International Rescue.

Instead, Labour have selected the Somali-born leader of Camden Council.  The sight of this hijab-wearing refugee posing alongside a crowd of diverse non-white Labour activists will be another eye opener for the shires.  The next MP for Holborn and St Pancras will be either a Muslim or a Jew, such is London these days.

Here is the full list of candidates.

Sagal Abdi-Wali (Lab)

Barmy Brunch (Loon)

Ewan Cameron (Con)

Tom Darwood (Ind)

Clare Fischer (Climate)

George Galloway (Workers Party)

Tyler Johnson (Restore)

Briony Kapoor (Rejoin EU)

Peter Newman (Ref)

Ketankumar Pipaliya (UK Voice)

Zack Polanski (Grn)

Jonathan Silberman (Communist League)

Helen Spiby-Vann (Christian Peoples Alliance)

Patrick Spillman (LDm)

Ben Walker (UKIP)

Twelve candidates contested the same constituency in 2024 - a hefty ballot paper for a general election - but party leaders' seats are where the national media is focused and the narcissistic allure is too great for the likes of Nick the Incredible Flying Brick and others.  For context, Rishi Sunak's constituency attracted even more candidates in 2024 - 13 in all - with Count Binface among the candidates looking to gloat over the end of his premiership.

Far left activist Andrew Feinstein did exceptionally well in 2024, taking a huge chunk out of Starmer's majority, but declined to stand again.  If only George Galloway had the same socialist unity in mind, Zack's crazy gang could have been in with a much better chance of doing Burnham some real harm...

Holborn and St Pancras 2024 general election result

Keir Starmer (Lab) 18,884 (48.9%) -17.4%

Andrew Feinstein (Ind) 7,312 (18.9%) New

David Stansell (Grn) 4,030 (10.4%) +6.4%

Mehreen Malik (Con) 2,776 (7.2%) -8.0%

David Roberts (Ref) 2,371 (6.1%) +4.2%

Charlie Clinton (LDm) 2,236 (5.8%) -6.5%

Wais Islam (Ind) 636 (1.6%) New

Nick the Incredible Flying Brick (Loon) 162 (0.4%) New

John Poynton (UKIP) 75 (0.2%) -0.1%

Tom Scripps (SocE) 61 (0.2) +0.1%

Senthil Kumar (Ind) 40 (0.1%) New

Bobby Smith (Ind) 19 (0.0%) New

DEATH CULT 159

Last Friday's astonishing turnaround in the globalist pursuit for lifestyle suicide took most people by surprise.  It is over a year since MPs last voted on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.  In June 2025, Labour's Kim Leadbeater saw her proposed bill pass in favour by 330 votes to 275.  However, its passage into legislation hit a brick wall in the House of Lords, with peers frustrating its progress until it was filibustered into oblivion.

As per usual, the globalist puppets tried again - only to fall at the first hurdle.  MPs voted against the bill by a narrow margin of 286 votes to 270.  The bill was once again tabled by a Labour MP, this time Lauren Edwards (Rochester and Strood).

Our own opposition to this bill is well documented across our platforms and we won't go over it again, suffice to say that it is no coincidence that euthanasia bills are being rolled out almost in lock-step across multiple Western nations at the moment.  Legislators in Canada are still deadlocked over expanding their own euthanasia legislation to include the depressed and mentally ill - an expansion that is central to our own argument about letting globalist depopulation fanatics get their foot in the door.

We are thankful for every MP - regardless of party colours - that opposed the End of Life bill on Friday.  It was a free vote across the parties, with whips not in play and MPs ostensibly able to vote on their own conscience.  We are especially grateful to the Conservatives, who were the only party whose leader and majority of MPs voted against the bill (90-17).  Kemi Badenoch could have sat on the fence like Andy Burnham and Nigel Farage, who were too afraid to upset either side on this divisive issue, but she chose a principled stand.

Ed Davey also voted against the bill, but the majority of his MPs (52-17) voted for the bill.  All five Green MPs voted for, with Plaid Cymru also voting in favour (3-1).  No Reform MP supported the bill, but three abstained - including Farage.

Labour were split 190 in favour and 153 against.  Following two controversial votes last summer, we published a list of the 196 Labour MPs who supported both the euthanasia bill and the arguably more disgusting abortion amendment proposed by Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi, which decriminalised abortion up to birth.

We have updated the list below to feature the unrepentant worst of the worst Labour MPs who voted in favour of both the abortion amendment and the euthanasia bill... twice!

Luke Akehurst (North Durham)

Sadik Al-Hassan (North Somerset)

Dan Aldridge (Weston-super-Mare)

Heidi Alexander (Swindon South)

Callum Anderson (Buckingham & Bletchley)

Jas Athwal (Ilford South)

Lewis Atkinson (Sunderland Central)

Alex Ballinger (Halesowen)

Paula Barker (Liverpool Wavertree)

Alex Barros-Curtis (Cardiff West)

Danny Beales (Uxbridge & South Ruislip)

Lorraine Beavers (Blackpool North & Fleetwood)

Torsten Bell (Swansea West)

Hilary Benn (Leeds South)

Matt Bishop (Forest of Dean)

Olivia Blake (Sheffield Hallam)

Rachel Blake (Cities of London & Westminster)

Chris Bloore (Redditch)

Kevin Bonavia (Stevenage)

Jade Botterill (Ossett & Denby Dale)

Jonathan Brash (Hartlepool)

Julia Buckley (Shrewsbury)

Maureen Burke (Glasgow North East) - neither the End of Life Bill or the abortion amendment would apply to Scotland

David Burton-Sampson (Southend West & Leigh)

Ruth Cadbury (Brentford & Isleworth)

Sam Carling (North West Cambridgeshire)

Sarah Champion (Rotherham)

Jacob Collier (Burton & Uttoxeter)

Lizzi Collinge (Morecambe & Lunesdale)

Sarah Coombes (West Bromwich)

Andrew Cooper (Mid Cheshire)

Beccy Cooper (Worthing West)

Deirdre Costigan (Ealing Southall)

Pam Cox (Colchester)

Chris Curtis (Milton Keynes North)

Nicholas Dakin (Scunthorpe)

Emily Darlington (Milton Keynes Central)

Paul Davies (Colne Valley)

Josh Dean (Hertford & Stortford)

Jim Dickson (Dartford)

Samantha Dixon (Chester North & Neston)

Helena Dollimore (Hastings & Rye)

Graham Downie (Dunfermline & Dollar) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Neil Duncan-Jordan (Poole)

Cat Eccles (Stourbridge)

Lauren Edwards (Rochester & Strood)

Damien Egan (Bristol North East)

Hamish Falconer (Lincoln)

Mark Ferguson (Gateshead Central & Whickham)

Natalie Fleet (Bolsover)

Emma Foody (Cramlington & Killingworth)

Catherine Fookes (Monmouthshire)

Anna Gelderd (South East Cornwall)

Alan Gemmell (Central Ayrshire) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Gill German (Clwyd North)

Becky Gittins (Clwyd East)

Jodie Gosling (Nuneaton)

Georgia Gould (Queen's Park & Maida Vale)

Sarah Hall (Warrington South)

Lloyd Hatton (South Dorset)

Tom Hayes (Bournemouth East)

Claire Hazelgrove (Filton & Bradley Stoke)

Rachel Hopkins (Luton South & South Bedfordshire)

Claire Hughes (Bangor Aberconwy)

Alison Hume (Scarborough & Whitby)

Leigh Ingham (Stafford)

Natasha Irons (Croydon East)

Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North & Cottingham)

Gerald Jones (Merthyr Tydfil & Aberdare)

Louise Sandher-Jones (North East Derbyshire)

Warinder Juss (Wolverhampton West)

Chris Kane (Stirling and Strathallan) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Liz Kendall (Leicester West)

Stephen Kinnock (Aberafan Maesteg)

Jayne Kirkham (Truro & Falmouth)

Sonia Kumar (Dudley)

Peter Kyle (Hove & Portslade)

Laura Kyrke-Smith (Aylesbury)

Noah Law (St Austell & Newquay)

Kim Leadbeater (Spen Valley)

Andrew Lewin (Welwyn Hatfield)

Simon Lightwood (Wakefield & Rothwell)

Josh MacAlister (Whitehaven & Workington)

Alice Macdonald (Norwich North)

Andy MacNae (Rossendale & Darwen)

Keir Mather (Selby)

Alex Mayer (Dunstable & Leighton Buzzard)

Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East)

Alison McGovern (Birkenhead)

Kevin McKenna (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)

Anna McMorrin (Cardiff North)

Kirsty McNeill (Midlothian) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Ed Miliband (Doncaster North)

Navendu Mishra (Stockport)

Luke Murphy (Basingstoke)

Chris Murray (Edinburgh East & Musselburgh) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Ian Murray (Edinburgh South) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

James Murray (Ealing North)

Samantha Niblett (South Derbyshire)

Alex Norris (Nottingham North & Kimberley)

Simon Opher (Stroud)

Kate Osborne (Jarrow & Gateshead East)

Tristan Osborne (Chatham & Aylesford)

Jon Pearce (High Peak)

Matthew Pennycook (Greenwich & Woolwich)

Jess Phillips (Birmingham Yardley)

Lee Pitcher (Doncaster East & the Isle of Axholme)

Joe Powell (Kensington & Bayswater)

Lucy Powell (Manchester Central)

Gregor Poynton (Livingston) - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Peter Prinsley (Bury St Edmunds & Stowmarket)

Andrew Ranger (Wrexham)

Steve Reed (Streatham & Croydon North)

Ellie Reeves (Lewisham West & East Dulwich)

Jake Richards (Rother Valley)

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Suffolk Coastal)

Lucy Rigby (Northampton North)

Dave Robertson (Lichfield)

Tim Roca (Macclesfield)

Sarah Russell (Congleton)

Sarah Sackman (Finchley & Golders Green)

Jeevun Sandher (Loughborough)

Mark Sewards (Leeds South West & Morley)

Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead & Highgate)

Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith & Chiswick)

John Slinger (Rugby)

Cat Smith (Lancaster & Wyre)

Jeff Smith (Manchester Withington)

Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent & Rhymney)

Karin Smyth (Bristol South)

Euan Stainbank (Falkirk)  - legislation would not apply to Scotland

Jo Stevens (Cardiff East)

Will Stone (Swindon North)

Alistair Strathern (Hitchin)

Peter Swallow (Bracknell)

Mark Tami (Alyn & Deeside)

David Taylor (Hemel Hempstead)

Rachel Taylor (North Warwickshire & Bedworth)

Gareth Thomas (Harrow West)

Marie Tidball (Penistone & Stocksbridge)

Jessica Toale (Bournemouth West)

Henry Tufnell (Mid & South Pembrokeshire)

Matt Turmaine (Watford)

Harpreet Uppal (Huddersfield)

Tony Vaughan (Folkestone & Hythe)

Chris Vince (Harlow)

Christian Wakeford (Bury South)

Chris Ward (Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven)

Chris Webb (Blackpool South)

Michelle Welsh (Sherwood Forest)

Andrew Western (Stretford & Urmston)

Michael Wheeler (Worsley & Eccles)

John Whitby (Derbyshire Dales)

Katie White (Leeds North West)

Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East)

Steve Witherden (Montgomeryshire & Glyndŵr)

Rosie Wrighting (Kettering)

Steve Yemm (Mansfield)

Daniel Zeichner (Cambridge)

This list was whittled down by a total of 37, mostly thanks to 33 MPs who abstained this time around.  Several of these were Scottish MPs who voted in favour first time around, despite the fact that the legislation would only apply to England and Wales.  However, nine Scottish MPs still participated in the vote and backed the bill a second time (where noted).  For context, all SNP MPs abstained, for the simple reason that the legislation would not apply to Scotland.

Josh Simons (Makerfield) drops off the list, because he is no longer an MP, having vacated his seat to make way for Andy Burnham.  Gareth Snell (Stoke-on-Trent Central) also drops off the list, having decided to sit on the fence this time by voting both for and against.  Finally, both Janet Daby (Lewisham East) and Luke Myer (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) reversed their original votes and voted against the bill.

This leaves 159 MPs on the ultimate list of murderous Labour MPs who have no shame in publicly supporting the legalised murder of our fellow citizens, including full term babies.  Never forget that you are the carbon they want to reduce.

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 17.09.26

It's four vacancies again this week, including a Nottinghamshire seat filled on the somewhat unorthodox polling day of Tuesday.

It was a bad week for the Greens as they lost two seats to the Uniparty, slumping to a distant third in one and getting smashed by more than a thousand votes in the other.  With the big Holborn and St Pancras Westminster by-election in a few weeks, the bubble is bursting at the wrong time for Zack's crazy gang.

An impressive gain from the Greens asides, it was not a stunning week for Labour.  However, they have still improved their performance from the bad old Starmer days, when double digit slumps in vote share were common place.

Wreake Valley, Charnwood Borough Council

Con: 1,091 (48.2%) +8.0%

Ref: 706 (31.2%) New

Grn: 372 (16.4%) -34.3%

Lab: 69 (3.1%) -6.0%

LDm: 24 (1.1%) New

Con GAIN from Grn

Triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, due to ongoing health issues and 'changes in her personal circumstances'.  She was elected in 2023, topping the poll in a clean sweep for the Greens as they took all three of this rural ward's seats following boundary changes.  It was an odd result on Thursday, with both the Tories and Reform pushing the hard left Greens into distant third.  There appeared to be a significant Green swing to Reform, but it was the Tories who topped the poll.

Karl - Grn HOLD ✘

Rich - Con GAIN ✔

Walkley, Sheffield City Council

Lab: 2,315 (53.4%) +14.4%

Grn: 1,249 (28.8%) -11.2%

Ref: 541 (12.5%) -1.6%

LDm: 112 (2.6%) -0.2%

Con: 59 (1.4%) -0.7%

TUS: 56 (1.3%) +0.3%

Lab GAIN from Grn

Triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, just three months after he sensationally unseated the Labour council leader.  It was a close fought contest on May 7, with the Green candidate winning by a narrow margin of 73 votes.  However, it turned out to be another case of poor candidate selection on the part of the Greens.  The new councillor stood down citing pressure and stress, as a direct result of what he called the 'huge weight of expectation and obligation'.  Labour were looking to win the seat back from their Sheffield coalition partners and did so in style, smashing the Greens by over a thousand votes.  There was no independent candidate this time.

Karl - Lab GAIN ✔

Rich - Lab GAIN ✔

Avondale & Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire Council

(first preference votes)

SNP: 1,025 (27.6%) -0.8%

Lab: 743 (20.0%) +0.2%

Ref: 727 (19.6%) New

Con: 393 (10.6%) -10.0%

Grn: 357 (8.2%) +1.8%

LDm: 357 (9.6%) New

Ind: 107 (2.9%) New

YrP: 45 (1.2%) New

ADF: 12 (0.3%) New

SNP GAIN from Ind (elected at stage 8)

Triggered by the death of the longstanding incumbent, following a lengthy illness.  She had been elected as a Labour councillor in 2012, but left the party shortly after being re-elected in 2017.  She was re-elected again in 2022, topping the poll on first preference votes.  The ballot paper will be a crowded affair this time, with no less than five newcomers.  There is no Alba candidate this time, with the party having folded earlier this year.  It was an SNP gain on the night, with many stages of voting required until there was a run-off against Labour at stage 8 (the council erroneously declared it stage 9, which is an error as there weren't enough candidates for nine rounds).  Corbyn's venture was propped up from the bottom by the Alliance for Democracy and Freedom.

Karl - Lab GAIN ✘

Rich - SNP GAIN ✔

East Markham, Bassetlaw District Council

Ref: 436 (49.6%) New

Con: 250 (28.4%) -37.6%

Lab: 151 (17.2%) -4.1%

Grn: 42 (4.8%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Tuesday's action was triggered by the resignation of the incumbent, for undisclosed reasons.  The Conservatives have held this single seat rural ward for almost the entirety of its existence, although the outgoing councillor served less than one term.  He easily defeated second placed Labour in 2023, garnering more than three times their vote.  The Lib Dems did not stand this time as Reform swept the Tories aside for an impressive gain.

Karl - Con HOLD ✘

Rich - Ref GAIN ✔

It was a clean sweep for Richey this week as he pushed even further ahead of Karl after week 15 of the head to head.

MEME MONDAY #100

We would have loved to have compiled a special one hundredth edition, but sadly poor health and work commitments are still holding us back.  It's just a bog standard Meme Monday...

Mon 7 Sept - 60 shares

Tue 8 Sep - 30 shares.  Lefty singer Pink (real name Alecia Moore) took
offence to being likened to Eddie on her birthday in 2023, lashing out at a
troll on her social media.  She failed to see the irony as a 'trans ally',
forgetting that Eddie is just a 'beautiful woman'!

Tue 8 Sep - 64 shares

Wed 9 Sep - 81 shares

Thu 10 Sep - 78 shares.  This post received a handful of despicable remarks
from lefty trolls and a grand total of twelve laughing emojis (out of more than a
thousand emoji reactions).  The left really are pathetic.  As a mark of respect
in honour of Charlie, not one of these clowns was banned from our page.  As a
free speech advocate, he would have sought to debate, not censor

Thu 10 Sep - 260 shares

Sat 12 Sep - 152 shares

Sun 13 Sep - 607 shares

Sun 13 Sep - 70 shares.  A reference to Orwell's 1984

Half a dozen Facebook Stories were published across the two pages last week, including another three editions of Diversity Is Strength...

BOATWATCH #76

An eight day lull was obliterated last Sunday when eight boats were picked up carrying an average of 78 colonists per vessel.  Two more followed the next day, followed by another lull that continued for the remainder of the week.

One of those eight boats picked up on Sunday included a whopper carrying 140 colonists that departed much further south than the usual area around Calais.  As a consequence, the dinghy travelled a much longer path towards Hampshire as opposed to Kent.  Outrageously, it was shadowed for almost its entire journey - ten hours - by the French coastguard.  The French claimed that it was 'not safe to attempt to stop the dinghy on water'.  Funny, because as soon as it crossed into British waters the collaborator vessels had no such issues stopping the boat and getting its occupants on board.

The UK government has paid France well over a billion pounds to stop small boat crossings since 2018.  The most recent deal, signed in April this year, commits an eye watering £662 million over three years.  It would cost the Royal Navy a tiny fraction of that to merely sink one dinghy - that's all it would take to stop the boats coming.  All the treaties and deals are a charade.  The reality is that neither the UK or French governments want to stop the boats - they are the biggest people smugglers of all.

On a lighter note, the flash mob that gathered in Portsmouth to greet the 140 migrants off that boat was very much well received by the wider public - regardless of what gutless politicians from the likes of Reform say about these lads.  If our own government and His Majesty's Armed Forces won't lift a finger to defend these shores, what else are right-minded patriotic Britons supposed to do!

Total = 768

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 10.09.26

The preview and forecast returned this week, with four seats up for grabs and two defences apiece for Labour and the Tories.  The red and blue halves of the Uniparty managed a hold each, but also lost a seat each to Reform.  It was an impressive hold for Labour in Manchester, who surged back into pole position in a ward in which they were heavily defeated by the Greens on May 7.  It was bad news for Zack's crazy gang and will be of particular concern to local Green MP Hannah Spencer.  It was a rough day all round for the Greens, who scored two wooden spoons elsewhere.

A large swing from Labour to Reform near Dennis Skinner's old hunting ground was enough to unseat Labour at the first time of asking, while they did the same to the Tories in Somerset, leaving them trailing way behind in third place.  It seems that the Channel 4 exposé did not have quite the impact the broadcaster intended.

Burnage, Manchester City Council

Lab: 1,365 (42.1%) +12.8%

Grn: 1,037 (32.0%) -13.8%

WPB: 466 (14.4%) +12.2%

Ref: 315 (9.7%) -7.3%

LDm: 31 (1.0%) -2.1%

Con: 27 (0.8%) -1.4%

Lab HOLD

Triggered by the election of the Labour incumbent (Bev Craig) to the post of Mayor of Greater Manchester.  This ward in the south of the city has historically elected Labour councillors, but the Greens surged way ahead of Labour here in May.  This was no great surprise, as the ward has a very large Muslim population.  All the parties selected Asian candidates, with the exception of Labour and Reform.  Labour's decision did nothing to dissuade sectarian voters, who appear to have dispensed with the Green Party now their stance on Alphabet People is more widely known.  There was no independent candidate this time around.

Karl - Grn GAIN ✘

Rich - Grn GAIN ✘

Eckington South & Renishaw, North East Derbyshire District Council

Ref: 426 (40.2%) New

Lab: 298 (28.1%) -31.9%

Con: 229 (21.6%) -12.7%

Ind: 55 (5.2%) New

Grn: 52 (4.9%) New

Ref GAIN from Lab

Triggered by the resignation of the Labour incumbent, who had served as the councillor for this rural ward since 2023.  He had become increasingly estranged from his party and had openly criticised the leadership, including several damning appearances on GB News.  It is not clear what ultimately sparked his decision to stand down, but it came soon after Andy Burnham's coronation.  It appears he had little confidence in his new leader.  North Derbyshire is traditional Red Wall territory, but Labour's control of the council was hanging by a thread and their defeat to Reform on Thursday saw the council tip into no overall control.  The Lib Dems did not stand this time.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✔

Rich - Ref GAIN ✔

Hutton & Locking, North Somerset Council

Ref: 706 (38.5%) New

LDm: 612 (33.3%) +16.2%

Con: 281 (15.3%) -16.6%

Lab: 133 (7.2%) -7.1%

Grn: 104 (5.7%) New

Ref GAIN from Con

Triggered by the death of the 80-year-old Tory incumbent.  The two seats in this mostly rural ward to the south and east of Weston-super-Mare have been evenly split between a Tory and an independent at the last two elections.  There was no independent this time around, with Reform and the Lib Dems appearing to benefit from the absence as the Tories were pushed into distant third.  North Somerset is currently run by a 'progressive alliance' of Labour, Lib Dems, Greens and independents.  As a result of Thursday's by-election there are now two Reform councillors here.

Karl - Con HOLD ✘

Rich - Grn GAIN ✘

Haverhill West, West Suffolk Council

Con: 530 (51.3%) +16.5%

Ref: 267 (25.8%) New

Lab: 146 (14.1%) -23.4%

Grn: 60 (5.8%) New

LDm: 30 (2.9%) New

Con HOLD

Triggered by the resignation of the Tory incumbent.  She cited health concerns for her departure, stemming from social media abuse and a formal complaint that had been lodged against her by a fellow unnamed councillor.  West Suffolk is a fairly new local authority, having been founded in 2019.  Like North Somerset above, it is currently run by a 'progressive alliance'.  Labour is the largest party in the coalition with 15 seats, while there are 16 independents, two Greens and one Lib Dem.  The two seats in this suburban ward were split between Labour and the Conservatives at the most recent election in 2023, with the incumbent Tory denying Labour from winning both seats by a slender margin of just eight votes.  There was no contest this time, with Labour slumping to third place as the Tories delivered a routine hold.  There was no indepenedent candidate this time.

Karl - Ref GAIN ✘

Rich - Lab GAIN ✘

Richey led Karl by six points going into this week's round and that hasn't changed after this very poor round for both of them!

MEME MONDAY #99

Karl had a slightly better week and was helped out by a couple of Richey efforts.  Normal service appears to be some way off.

Mon 31 Aug - 132 shares

Tue 1 Sep - 53 shares

Thu 3 Sep - 766 shares

Fri 4 Sep - 14 shares

Sun 6 Sep - 10 shares

We promised a 'Diversity Is Strength' special this week and Karl has not disappointed, producing a series of Facebook Stories dedicated to multi-cultural crime, alongside a handful of other designs.